Word: communisme
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...collapse of Eastern Europe is indeed a triumph for democratic institiutions and ideals. Hungary has officially renounced communism. Romania has deposed a cruel totalitarian dictator. Six East European governments--all once Soviet satellites--have scheduled free elections, and even the Soviet Union itself is poised to eliminate one-party cmmunist rule...
SOVIET observers point to the failure of communism as an economic system. A Stalinist centrally planned economy cannot provide for the demands of a consumer society. But these contradictions were magnified by a Cold War that sucked billions of dollars away from consumption and into the arms race...
...step in the Right direction? Is this the Soviet Union's final acknowledgement that it was an Evil Empire after all, that Ronald Reagan's America was right all along? Has capitalism KO'd communism once...
Obviously not. Despite the descriptions of the newly anticipated Soviet government as "Western-style," this is not really an issue of East and West or of communism and capitalism. It is an issue of political democracy. Despite Gorbachev's market-oriented reforms, the Soviet Union will probably never be an outpost of Reaganite capitalism...
With each passing day, this vision of the apocalypse becomes more archaic. The Kremlin's allies, if they can still be called that, are not only abandoning communism; they are demanding the removal of Soviet troops. A delegation from Moscow was in Hungary last week and will be in Czechoslovakia this week to discuss a specific timetable, possibly before the end of the year. The Soviets told the Poles that they are prepared to talk about troop reductions there. Torn by internal dissent and economic failure, the Soviet Union is in the process of unilaterally reducing its army...